The fight, scheduled for 10 rounds, will be the main event on ESPN's Friday Night Fights and will be for the vacant IBF North American junior-middleweight championship belt.

"I'm ready to go," Rodriguez said in an email following the weigh-in at the Mohegan Sun. " I'm 100 percent mentally and physically prepared. I'm looking forward to putting on a show for all my fans from Danbury that are making the trip to support me, and I will give them a victory."

The 33-year-old Rodriguez (27-6-3 15 KO) is ranked seventh in the world by the WBA and 11th in the world by the WBC among junior middleweights. Hernandez is 30-4-0 with 20 knockouts.

"Training camp was great," Rodriguez's trainer Fernely Feliz said in an email. "I'm very confident going into this fight. Delvin looks sharp. He is well conditioned and we're ready to bring the fight to this boy."